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Year: 2011

  • my home | patio | photography | thinking out loud

    Backyard Life

    Bymichelle June 10, 2011July 27, 2022

     I’ve been painting chairs, weeding, and planting in record highs with no rain.  In between all of that, I took some 365’s.  The fact that they are all of legs…

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  • cheap stuff | my home | patio

    Scratch One Off

    Bymichelle June 10, 2011July 27, 2022

    Well, I can scratch one thing off of the list: I did treat and paint my patio furniture.   (day 151) The set was already neglected when I bought it…

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  • family | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

    End of Year Party Circuit

    Bymichelle June 8, 2011July 27, 2022

    When I was in school there were two parties:  Christmas and Valentine’s Day.  We got candy canes and a homemade envelope full of little paper hearts with Elmer’s glue running…

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  • food | garden | photography

    A Little More Garden

    Bymichelle June 1, 2011July 27, 2022

    I’m really surprised these Tom Thumb peas are growing in this dry heat.   Even with a well, soaker hoses, and strategically placed sprinklers everything is struggling.   I don’t…

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  • cheap stuff | garden | homemaking | my home | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

    365 Days of Procrastination

    Bymichelle May 31, 2011July 27, 2022

    Well, it ends here.  I’m giving myself until mid July to finish the bigger, space stealing projects I have in various stages of completion.    We tend to have too…

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  • animals | knitting | photography

    The Never Ending Knit

    Bymichelle May 26, 2011July 27, 2022

    This is it.  The Corona Camisol.  It’s meant to be loose fitted, but I think the model in the picture is pinning all the loose swaths of stockinette back with…

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  • family | photography | thinking out loud

    The Girl

    Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

    You saw my favorite boy. Here’s my favorite girl who is barely a girl at all. But I can still see it. (after the show, day 135) I really love…

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  • family | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

    The Boy

    Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

    Here’s my favorite boy who won’t be a boy for long.   (summer boy, day 133)  (mastermind, day 143) He’s making the most of it and I try to help….

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  • homemaking | photography

    Homegrown Tomatoes

    Bymichelle May 23, 2011May 16, 2023

    They adorn kitchen windowsills across the country.  My favorite summer decoration. (homegrown tomatoes, day 137)

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  • garden | photography | thinking out loud

    Produce

    Bymichelle May 20, 2011July 27, 2022

    That’s an order. I wish it were that easy.  Don’t get me wrong, considering the dry spring we’re having, this is the best I’ve ever done in my “little garden…

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